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· 11/30/1895

Purdy v. Davis

Citations

  • 13 Wash. 164
  • 42 P. 520
  • 1895 Wash. LEXIS 66

Syllabus

<p>WILL — VALIDITY — PROVISIONS FOR CHILDREN.</p> <p>Under Code Proc., § 1465, requiring that any will, in order to be effectual, must name or provide for the children of deceased, a bequest of all of decedent’s property to her husband must be held void, there being a child alive, when the only reference to him was-in a proviso to the bequest to the husband providing that if he-“should marry again after my demise all my property, both real and personal, is to belong to any one or more children that may he born to me before my demise.”</p>

Judges: Gordon

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